The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 78
The Prince, who felt more hopeful than he had done since he left home, did precisely as he had been ordered.
Who acts: Prince, child · What happens: feel, do, leave, order · To what, where: child
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 hopeful | advmod |
| 7 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 hopeful | advcl |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 18 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 17 did | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ordered | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ordered | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 ordered | aux:pass |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 did | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Prince | hopeful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | child | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | child | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the Prince not said here | precisely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | order | past · perfect · passive | child | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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